66 Quotes by Omar Sharif

I decided I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions – bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn’t give them enough time.

They didn’t accept me theory – not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can’t concentrate properly on the one thing.

I can’t say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I don’t think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

People don’t have to be beautiful any more. We don’t have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they’re all common-looking.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality – the Arab people like me and respect me – thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

I see only defects because I’m not following the scene as it were. I’m not following the other person. It’s like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It’s all the tradition.